Frases de Cormac McCarthy

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“Em que é que o que nunca existirá difere do que nunca existiu?”

“Nem todas as palavras prestes a morrer são portadoras da verdade e a bênção que proporcionam não é menos genuína por se ver privada dos seus fundamentos.”

“As pessoas estavam sempre a preparar-se para o futuro. Eu não acreditava nisso. O futuro não se estava a preparar para elas. O futuro nem sabia que elas existiam.”

“E se eu te dissesse que ele é um deus?
O velho abanou a cabeça. Já não acredito em nada disso. Deixei de acreditar há anos. Onde os homens não conseguem viver, os deuses não têm melhor sorte. Vais ver. É melhor estar sozinho.”

“A vida é breve, e passar o tempo todo fazendo o que os outros querem que você faça não é o modo de vivê-la.”

“Como num daqueles jogos que se jogam nas festas. Diz a palavra ao ouvido do seguinte. Por isso, sejamos parcimoniosos. Aquilo que alteramos nas recordações também em a sua realidade, conhecida ou não.”

“O capitão se curvou para trás e cruzou os braços. Estamos lidando aqui é com uma raça de degenerados, disse. Uma raça de mestiços, não muito melhor que negros. E talvez nem isso. Não existe governo no México. Diabo, não existe Deus no México. Nunca vai existir. A gente está lidando com um povo absolutamente incapaz de se governar sozinho. E sabe o que acontece com povos que não conseguem se governar sozinhos? Isso mesmo. Outros vêm e governam por eles.”

“Encheu o copo. Beba, disse. O mundo continua a girar. Temos dança todas as noites e esta não é exceção. O caminho direto e o tortuoso são um só e agora que você está aqui de valem que os anos decorridos desde a última ocasião em que nos encontramos? As lembranças do homem são incertas e o passado que ocorreu difere pouco do passado que não.”

“Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.”

“When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?”

“I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.”

“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”

“Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.”

“Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.”

“This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.”

“If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?”

“Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.”

“There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.”

“What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?”

“When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”

“If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”

“What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.”

“…. A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They’re always more trouble than what they’re worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.”

“A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.”

“Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.”

“The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.”

“Each the others world entire.”

“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”

“This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.”

“I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.

[, New York Times, April 19, 1992]”

“Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.”

“He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.”

“Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.”

“I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.”

“How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”

“Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen the horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart, only that man can dance. - The judge”

“What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This mawky worm-bent tabernacle.”